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Post #3. Mark it. It is ok to be a dead-beat parent when you fufill one or more of the following qualifications:
1) You are in jail
2) You are an active abuser of one of the "big" drugs (heroin, cocaine, Oxycotin, etc.)
3) You are homeless
4) You are legally incompetent
5) You are a failure as a human being and your organs should be repossesed
In my definition, "dead-beat" means not having legal custody. And most dead-beats do fit one or more of those definitions.
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